{"id":662844,"date":"2026-05-11T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662844\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:17:09","slug":"nintendo-sent-wwes-cody-rhodes-a-legal-threat-over-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662844\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Sent WWE’s Cody Rhodes A Legal Threat Over Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cody Rhodes<\/a> is one of the biggest stars in professional wrestling and the current WWE Undisputed Champion. But even he can\u2019t escape the ever-watching eyes of Nintendo\u2019s vast army of lawyers and legal representatives. After once adding the Triforce from The Legend of Zelda to his boots, the WWE star says he received a \u201ckind\u201d cease and desist from Nintendo to remove it.<\/p>\n

On a recent episode of Kit Wilson\u2019s What Do You Wanna Talk About podcast,<\/a> Rhodes was asked about the Triforce logo he (briefly) sported on his wrestling boots around 2013.<\/a> Rhodes explained that beyond just being a fan of Zelda and other Nintendo games, he believed the \u201cprinciples\u201d of the Triforce applied to his in-ring character.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought the principles of the Triforce, which are power, courage and wisdom\u2026 were just applicable,\u201d explained Rhodes. \u201cAnd for those who don\u2019t know, Zelda\u2019s the wise one.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, \u201cObviously, Link is the one who\u2019s got the courage, and power is Gannon. They make up the three parts of the Triforce. That\u2019s the whole deal. And I just liked the idea of thinking and leaning towards your own wisdom or what you\u2019ve learned and applying it. Of being ambitious and wanting to, you know, seek or be powerful.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Makes sense, seems reasonable, but none of that mattered to Nintendo<\/a>, who weren\u2019t a fan of Rhodes adding the Triforce to his boots.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also got a cease and desist from Nintendo,\u201d explained Rhodes. \u201cIt was very kind. They were polite. They weren\u2019t coming after anybody.\u201d Rhodes also has a Triforce tattooed on his finger. Let\u2019s hope for his sake that Nintendo doesn\u2019t come after that. Kotaku has contacted Nintendo about the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cody Rhodes is one of the biggest stars in professional wrestling and the current WWE Undisputed Champion. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,8274,75,10755,38157,13015],"class_list":["post-662844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cody-rhodes","tag-entertainment","tag-nintendo","tag-the-legend-of-zelda","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}